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▲Hackers leak cop manuals for departments after breaching major provider (dailydot.com)
78 points by pseudolus 32 days ago | 10 comments
crimsoneer 32 days ago [-]
Here in the UK all this stuff is helpfully already public (hence no need for private middlemen)

https://www.college.police.uk/app

softgrow 32 days ago [-]
Ditto NSW in Australia (but not all states).
softgrow 32 days ago [-]
Correction QLD publishes, NSW has bits and pieces due to FOI requests.
prennert 31 days ago [-]
As an outsider (not living in the US), it is kind of weird that the US army manuals are public [0], and the police ones are private.

[0]: https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/FM.aspx

31 days ago [-]
envp 32 days ago [-]
The website is absolutely awful to use on mobile, archived here for sanity: https://archive.is/qdSIr
entropie 32 days ago [-]
Its also horrible on desktop. The content is literally a 15% area on the very left and most of the space is blank (or probably full of ads that are on multiple layers blocked on my client)
giantg2 32 days ago [-]
Most of this stuff is available through right to know laws depending on the state.
chaps 29 days ago [-]
Yes, but you have to submit a request to every single one of those places. And then they have to review and redact them. I've had these policies denied in public records requests because the 800 page document would take many hours of review to complete. Had to submit the requests in piecemeal and it was very time consuming for me and the agency. That's just for one place.
32 days ago [-]
billy99k 32 days ago [-]
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skulk 32 days ago [-]
Would you like to explain how taking (perhaps illegal) action to force transparency in authority is somehow itself authoritarian?
progmetaldev 32 days ago [-]
Most likely they are just posting for the "puppygirl hacker polycule", and "So we took matters into our own paws". My guess is that these words were chosen as a joke.

I feel like we are in agreement that taking these manuals, considering nobody was physically hurt, is a good thing. The tactics and policies for law enforcement should absolutely be available to anyone, considering our tax dollars go towards these employees. Transparency is needed in order to help guarantee constitutional rights, as well as to know when individual rights have been violated. I'm not anti-law enforcement, I'm anti-corruption.